Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
August 30, 2014
HT Jason Kottke:
Millions of Americans will see the sight of a lifetime on August 21, 2017 when a rare total solar eclipse sweeps the nation from Oregon to South Carolina. Day turns to night for two minutes and the sky’s most beautiful spectacle, the Sun’s corona, reveals itself in grandeur.
August 28, 2014
css / design / typography
Medium has beautiful typography. This exemplifies the attention they pay to it:
Typography, likewise, is a game of nuance. This is a story on how a quick evening project to fix the appearance of underlined Medium links turned into a month-long endeavour.
August 21, 2014
activism / feminism / hillary clinton / politics
I am thinking about feminists of all sorts—and how so many of us are anti-racist and anti-militarist. HRC as president will be used to disguise militarism with a friendly white female face, read as feminist. “We” -– women — will be told that the glass ceiling has been broken. “We” will hear that we are now in a post-feminist era. But this particular “we” remains too rich, too white, too imperial, too capitalist, too… And, it is not enough to hope that this elitism will resolve itself. It is crucial for U.S. women to say no to these policies of mass destruction, incarceration, and militarization, even if the strategy for doing so seems unclear. Not in our Name.
August 21, 2014
brad frost / design / ecommerce / forms / user experience
Brad Frost goes through some of his goals in designing the new donation form for a nonprofit. It started out because he, as is all too common with nonprofits, was having a hard time figuring out how to give them money.
August 15, 2014
activism / mariame kaba / policing / race
For blacks, the “war on terror” hasn’t “come ‘home.'” It’s always been here. How then might we consider the emphasis on the militarization of policing as the problem as another example of “the precariousness of empathy”?
August 13, 2014
design / service design / user experience
An open collection of communication tools used in design processes that deal with complex systems.
August 13, 2014
design / service design / user experience
A service design toolkit, containing tools to help go through the process.
August 13, 2014
design / user experience / user research
I made this site a few years before our book to help folks conduct remote user research, remote usability testing, remote interaction design research, and anything behavioral that involves functional design.
August 10, 2014
activism / homelessness / politics
Mark Van Steenwyk takes a look at stereotypes around how we treat people experiencing homelessness, why we do treat them the way we do, and some real ways to move forward.
August 10, 2014
greg boyd / judgment / theology
I always saw myself as an open-minded, non-judgmental person. But I discovered that my brain was ceaselessly popping up opinions on everything from how people drove to what they looked like to how they parented to what I thought they believed, etc… While many of these automatic sub-conscious opinions of people were not negative, few were perfectly aligned with God’s opinion of them…